This blogspot is all about very short stories. Stories between 600 to 1000 words are the parameters.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Green Orbs

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(This story was part of a contest, which had a theme. The theme was to write a 3-minute
story whereby the voice in the story was to leave a message on someone's answering machine.)

“Hello John. You won’t believe what I am about to tell you.
The desert sun is setting out here as the sky burns with broad swaths of red
and orange, yet there appears to be a green orb flashing in the foreground. I
am standing before my picture window facing the vast open ranch land filled
with grazing cattle. The green orb is coming closer becoming distinct. The
shape is oblong with flashing lights.

It has now stopped about a half-mile away but remains as
high in the sky as a flyover jet airliner. The vehicle remains still for the
moment. Wait. Whoa! It has now shifted directions. It moved to the north at a
very fast clip. You could say, the blink of an eye. But now it soared in the
opposite direction at just as fast a rate.

It now is still. Hovering in the sky. Two other green
flashing orbs have joined it. The color is of a deep forest green, although,
very glossy. Sparkly. The sun is setting and the horizon is ablaze with wide
swooping strokes of red, orange and yellow.

I am alone in the house. My dog Jones is also standing at
the window. He sees the orbs, too. The hair on his neck is standing straight up
in the air, and he is beginning to whine.

I don’t know what to make of this. I am feeling really
anxious. What if it lands right out here? What do I do?

This message is to tell you that if I am no longer here this
is why.

Hold on here! The green orbs are now joined by 6 more. These
are white in color. There are now 9 orbs hovering in the sky to the south of
me. They are now orbiting one another. Wait! They are coming closer now. They
are spreading out to what looks like several hundred yards from down here. In
the center are the three green orbs in a triangular formation, but all around
them in a circular design are the other 6 equal distant from one another.

They continue to come closer!! Holy shit!! They are heading
for the desert!! The cows

are all coming together congregating into a large herd and
bellowing loudly. They are all calling out in unison!! What is happening? I am
really beginning to sweat. My shirt is soaked. Jones runs in circles and then
stops to look out the window.

I can see the orbs in detail now. They are oblong saucers.
Just like in that old black and white 1960s movie, “The Day The Earth Stood
Still!” They have windows all around but are darkly tinted, yet can see there
is an amber glow inside the vehicle.

They appear to be a quarter mile up and about a tenth of a
mile out. The orbs have all lined up horizontally. The three green ones are now
descending, while the white ones are lifting. There is no sound as they move.
The white orbs are very bright and have what looks like portals all around
them. They are hovering around 500 yards above the green ones.

I am now holding binoculars and can see that on the
underside are four smaller portals the size of car tires. In the center is a
larger one the diameter of a tractor rim.

One green orb has separated from the others, and is now
slowly moving toward the house.

It has landed 100 yards in front of me! Oh my God! It is
opening up, John! It is opening!